For Immediate Release

Public Relations Division
Public Affairs Department
1170 Eighth Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18016-7699
(610) 694-3711 - Phone
(610) 694-1509 - Fax

BETHLEHEM, Pa., October 23, 2000 - The website of Bethlehem Steel Corporation (www.bethsteel.com) has been named by BtoB magazine to its NetMarketing 200 listing as one of the top business-to-business websites in the United States.

BtoB magazine, a member of the Advertising Age Group of publications, honored Bethlehem Steel for top scores for the attractiveness and friendliness of its web site. Bethlehem was ranked third of the 15 firms honored in the manufacturing and industrial categor. The magazine also emphasized the strength of the sites' web-based sales and customer resource management.

Comments specific to Bethlehem's site were "strong, up-to-date B2B site, with more capabilities promised." In addition to the full spectrum of corporate and investor information, the Bethlehem site features a customer corner where production, order, shipping and invoice information and status can be obtained. Additional customer-oriented features being developed include claims entry, order status information, status of all unpaid inventories, credit information and the ability to track railcars.

Bethlehem Steel is the nation's second largest integrated steel company with annual revenues of about $4 billion and shipments of about nine million tons. Its 14,700 employees work primarily in three major divisions - Burns Harbor, Ind., Sparrows Point, Md. (with plate mills in Coatesville and Conshohocken, Pa.), and Pennsylvania Steel Technologies, Steelton, Pa The corporation is a leading supplier to the North American automotive and construction industries, and is the largest supplier of plate products on the continent.